BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)
Further Information
| Notes (MWS) | These insects have wingless juvenile forms (eg nymphs) which often look fairly similar to the adults, albeit with wings reduced or absent. Development from the juvenile to the adult form (metamorphosis) proceeds by a series of stages (instars) which (in the winged species) have increasingly developed wings leading to the fully-winged adult. |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
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| Order | DERMAPTERA (earwigs) | 3 | 23 | 1 | 11 | |
| Order | DICTYOPTERA (cockroaches) | 3 | 46 | 38 | 10 | |
| Order | HEMIPTERA (bugs) | 108 | 478 | 377 | 3 | 105 |
| Order | HOMOPTERA (bugs) | 57 | 120 | 107 | 89 | |
| Order | ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets) | 26 | 189 | 63 | 1 | 40 |
| Order | PHTHIRAPTERA (sucking lice) | 2 | 9 | 8 | ||
| Order | PLECOPTERA (stoneflies) | 4 | 60 | 11 | 6 | 2 |
| Order | PSOCOPTERA (booklice and barklice or barkflies) | 3 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Order | THYSANOPTERA (thrips) | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Suggested Literature
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 73 general literature references to Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)
Exopterygota may also be covered by literature listed under:
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BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 3617 feeding and other relationships of Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally)
